What to play?

Breaking out of prison would be a great first episode.

Or maybe we escape from a quarantine zone along with a bunch of others.

If we break out of prison, we're wanted, there's a manhunt, anything approaching normal is right out the window. If someone like the Super Power Liberation Front (SPLiF) were to break everyone in quarantine out just to make an anti-authoritarian statement, we would still be wanted, but not specifically us... everyone who was in that quarantine zone. We could go about our normal lives pretending to be normal and supering on the sly. We might all know each other from the time we spent together there, and know we all have powers from using them to help each other escape. Maybe we made a pact to meet up after, to see if we could do anything to help vs. whoever is hunting supers.

That sounds like a good idea, I think

Breeakibg out of the quarantine zone sound interesting. That could even mark a turning point: some people think the quarantine guettos are/were a necessity to stop the plague, other saw it as shameful death sentences from a far and detached government.
More comments for the brainstorm:
* I’m not sure if there should an autoritarian regime already or if one is slowly being created. I think the second option builds up the tension progressively And allows for more factions to struggle to fill the recent "power vacuum". All faction are authoritarian in themselves, but full control is still lacking. We’d be in An exploitable state of panic with political and economic forces clashing to impose their will?

The thing is, even with breaking out of a quarantine zone, we all have to be linked already to each other through the relationship map and everything. So just randomly meeting up before the first episode starts wouldn't work

Right, the map will connect us all, but... not necessarily like we grew up together.

It sounds like we met while in a "quarantine zone". From the way everyone is describing it, I imagine it was a neighborhood or section of a city that was just suddenly blocked off by the military/authority/government or whoever without warning, trapping us all there with lots of others. It was probably a poor neighborhood; it might even be fun if it was a section of town with a shady reputation.

Some of us may have known each other before that, but not necessarily. I like that idea because it means we can be all kinds of ages, backgrounds, socioeconomic classes, professions, etc. without it seeming really weird that we all know each other. Our relationships to each other and the NPCs and locations we setup can connect us more than our shared history. We can hack the pathways chart to make it mean whatever we need. That Hacker's Guide is priceless!

Right, I assumed the quarantine zone would be a desginated area that we would have been moved to but this makes a lot of sense actually! I like it

I agree! Let's go with this approach.

Sounds good. Let me know when we start characters!

Hmmm I am thinking of playing a rich brat or someones little brother or sister

If you're serious about the sibling tie-in I'd be down for that.

Cool !

You want to be the younger brother or sister?

Yes I will play the younger sibling.

I have no idea who to play now... lol
I think I officially have too many games going now.

Does anyone want me to be their sister or girlfriend? I’m not sure what my character is like yet, but I promise to make her dramarific!

I never played this system, but that sounds like you’re already planning to cheat on a PC 🤣
Are these the sort of starting relationships we should have? For example, Tracy is my girlfriend and squad is my childhood friend who is the big brother of cosmic who was in the swimming team with tao where they met bowl, the waiter?

I'm always up for stuff like that. I'm still not settled on a character but I like the girlfriend idea. Just don't count on it being a happy relationship xD

Yeah were all supposed to be tangled up with each other.

Think the characters in Smallville, Buffy, Immortals, Flash, Supergirl etc etc.

And not just the PCs but their other connections as well.
If I establish a location, for example a restaurant I work at, then you could have a contact, let's say the guy that you owe a whole lot of money to, who we then decide is the manager of that restaurant